« on: October 11, 2016, 05:51:32 pm »
At stake: The Constitution
By Cal Thomas
Published Oct. 10, 2016
This election is about a lot of things, but it is fundamentally about the U.S. Constitution and whether federal judges will adhere to their oath to "... faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me ... under the Constitution and laws of the United States," or dilute, attack and destroy our founding document.
That the Constitution is on the ballot in the persons of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, who hold differing views of it and have pledged to appoint radically different judges to federal benches, is revealed in a recent op-ed for Slate by Richard Posner, a judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
In his op-ed, as reported by The Washington Times, Judge Posner claims to see "absolutely no value" in studying the Constitution because "18th-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century." I suspect if they had seen modern culture with our fixation on Kim Kardashian, they might have retreated to England.
Even the Bill of Rights, says Posner, "do not speak to today."...
Read more at http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas101016.php3#wJbm26tvmJeRvBJJ.99
We have a lot of other things on the ballot so just a reminder do your research and make an informed decision on every thing you vote on. It's not just a presidential election. We should stand for the Constitution everywhere we can.
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